Random Thoughts

[Kurosawa Fan]

That's fine, but it means you're not relaly in a position to accurately comment on the weaknesses of a show that has evolved a lot in the subsequent seasons.

I'm certainly in a position to state that I've only seen the first season, and then point out the flaws inherent in that season. Which is what I did.

[Watashi]

I still haven't seen the 4th or 5th seasons of The Wire. I need to get on that, but I'll likely start over from season 1 because it's so goddamn good.

[Dead & Messed Up]

You guys are weird. I really like Mad Men and Breaking Bad and The Wire.

Entourage is terrible.

[Mara]

I'm trying to think if there's a critical darling television show I didn't like.

I couldn't get past three episodes of Twin Peaks.

[D_Davis]

You're [DAMU] really weird.

[D_Davis]

I gave up on Buffy after the first season. Yuk.

Supernatural > Buffy

[number8]

I used to crap on Buffy. Those were the days.

[amberlita]

Let's discuss Sylvester Stallone's mom and Breaking Bad's narrative faults. Those two subjects seem to get people talking. :P

Well....that worked.

You guys are weird. I really like Mad Men and Breaking Bad and The Wire.

Entourage is terrible.

I like you. You're okay in my book.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I gave up on Buffy after the first season. Yuk.

Supernatural > Buffy

Ironically (?), I gave up on Supernatural after the first four episodes.

Someday I'll dip back in. Seasons Four and Five are supposed to be exceptional.

[Irish]

Well....that worked.

I'm a little disappointed no one opted to discuss Jackie Stallone, master of disguise.

[Lucky]

Nostradamus predicts...

I used to crap on Mad Men. Those were the days.

[number8]

Ironically (?), I gave up on Supernatural after the first four episodes.

Someday I'll dip back in. Seasons Four and Five are supposed to be exceptional.

Supernatural borrows from Buffy so heavily, it even follows the rate of improvement!

[D_Davis]

No one has mentioned Hell on Wheels, yet. Imabout to start that shit.

[Scar]

I used to crap on Buffy. Those were the days.

Yes, we all know you're kinky.

[Lucky]

By the way, number8 and KFan being initially wrong about a TV show is old news. Please see Page 1.

[Irish]

Now, about that Jackie Stallone -- turns out she's not only a psychic, she specializes in something she calls Rumpology.

And that's exactly what it sounds like:

Jacqueline Stallone, the foremost American rumpologist, has revealed and revived the ancient art of Rumpology. Rump reading is an art that was practiced in ancient Babylon, India, Greece, and Rome. The ancient Greeks thought the derriere was the key to health and fidelity and the Romans used prints of the gluteus maximus the way some people use palmistry today, to determine potential talents and future success.

Rumpology is sometimes called butt reading in modern parlance. It is the art of reading the lines, crevices, dimples, and folds of the buttocks to divine the individual's character and gain an understanding of what has occurred in the past and get a prediction of the future.

http://www.jacquelinestallone.com/rumps.html

[number8]

By the way, number8 and KFan being initially wrong about a TV show is old news. Please see Page 1.

Hey, at least I never said anything bad about it.

KF, on the other hand... WOTTALOSERAMIRITEGUISE.

[D_Davis]

I cannot stand Avatar. I do not get the adult fascination with that show.

[number8]

I cannot stand Avatar. I do not get the adult fascination with that show.

[Melville]

Not saying it can't be funny at times, just that the humor comes from (at least in the first season) pointing out the stark contrasts in office and household politics in the fifties and today. It's a superficial, banal type of humor, but the characters and the dialogue are all humorless, intent on achieving dramatic "edginess" and a constant brooding.

The vast majority of the humor, at least past the first few episodes, is character-based. The pilot and a few episodes after do try for some kind of edginess (the build to the final reveal in the pilot was pretty lame, for example), but that goes away. I'm a big fan of constant brooding.

I think the time for rankings has arrived.

Mad Men - 9 (might drop after the glow of the latest season fades)
The Sopranos - 7.5 (I can't remember it very well, though, and I only saw 2.5 seasons)
The Wire - 7.5
Deadwood - 7
Breaking Bad - 6.5
Game of Thrones - 6
Few minutes I've seen of Buffy - unwatchable

[Mara]

I never even bothered to try and watch The Sopranos, because I have met me.

[number8]

I think I'm supposed to be meeting up with Nick and Boner now. I will tell them that I got held up because Melville was posting nonsense.

[Melville]

I think I'm supposed to be meeting up with Nick and Boner now. I will tell them that I got held up because Melville was posting nonsense.

My job is done.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Supernatural borrows from Buffy so heavily, it even follows the rate of improvement!

I'm of the belief that Angel and Buffy have the exact same show advancement over their five seasons:

5 > 3 > 2 >/= 4 > 1

[Mara]

I'm of the belief that Angel and Buffy have the exact same show advancement over their five seasons:

5 > 3 > 2 >/= 4 > 1

I assume you mean Supernatural?

EDIT: Or maybe not. I'm all confused.